lol yeah. I read they don't like trump that they are plotting his destruction lol

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The Hill reports that there was much hand-wringing about Donald Trump at the Koch brothers' winter retreat this past weekend. Anti-Trump strategies were discussed:

On the eve of the Iowa caucuses, Koch network officials revealed in a private meeting with donors that they had commissioned focus group research to identify Trump’s vulnerabilities.

... [A] senior Koch official ... shared for the first time focus group research the network had commissioned showing that Trump’s popularity falls when voters are shown how working people have suffered as a result of his bankruptcies and business dealings in Atlantic City. Stories of ordinary people's livelihoods being harmed as Trump tried to enrich himself at their expense are most effective in "moving the needle" against Trump, donors were told.

So the assembled Kochites were told over the weekend that they should go forward and attack Trump as a guy who's cruel to ordinary people. And when the Kochs say "Jump," apparently National Review says "How high?" Here's the lead story at NR right now:

it's not dumbing down, that would assume there was a higher baseline. people have always been racist and ignorant and the GOP has, for 50 years, consciously exploited that. trump is just more open about it than goldwater, nixon, reagan, bush 41, have been. (democrats have pursued racist policies and appealed to racism, as well, but not as much.)

the people who believed there was such a thing as a welfare queen are the people who are gleefully cheering when trump says we shouldn't let any muslims into the country. the shock, if any, is that his popularity surprises anyone.